Operating mechanism for washing-machines.



E. BUSWELL.

OPERATING MECHANISM FOR WASHING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED 0OT.27.1913.

1,121,610. Patented Dec.22,1914.

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OPERATING MECHANISM r03, WASHING-MACHINES,

. Specificationof Letters Batent.

' P tente Dear 22519 Application filed (1ctober27j19132 Serial No.797,585.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EUGENE BUswELL, a citizenof the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawkcounty, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOperating Mechanism for Washing-Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvementsin washing-machines, and the objectof my improvement is to furnish a simple and a convenient actuatingmechanism for the rocker-body within the tub, said means comprisinghand-levers which may be alternately manually actuated by the operatorto rock said body. I T

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafterdescribed, and

claimed, and which are illustrated in the ac companying drawings, inwhich: I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the washing-machine equipped with myimproved actuating-means. Fig. 2 is an upper plan view of the tub ofsaid machine, and the cable connections only for the hand-levers,

the latter not being shown. Fig. 3 is an elevation of thebracketcasting, its bearings,

and the hand-levers pivotally connected thereto, the upper parts of saidlevers being broken away; p

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The washing-machine tub 6 has a hinged top cover 5, with means forsecuring same in a closed position, and said cover having a centralopening, through which extends a central vertical shaft, having aclothes steering rocker-body secured to its lower end within the tub,the upper end of said shaft having mounted thereon, a pulley 1 providedwith two horizontal cable-grooves .to seat the two short cables 3 and 4,respectively. Said pulley has a housing 2 about it, mounted upon thesaid cover 5, the housing having openings to permit of the passage ofsaid cables 3 and 4, whose ends are secured to said pulley to work andbe seated in its said groove, while the outer ends of the cables arerespectively provided with the blocks 8 and 7 said blocks havingintegral pintles l0, and 9, respectively, which are rotatably secured inbearing studs on the handle-bars 14 and 13, respectively. 7

jected thereinto from the lower extremity of the hand-lever 14, thelast-mentioned le- .ver being fulcrumed on a pintle 16, supported in thebracket 15; y Y The hand-levers 13 and 14 are 3 respectively to rock.said pulley 1, its vertical shaft and the attached rocker-body inalternate directions. The manner in which the lower end of the lever 14:is pivoted, by means of the pin 17 in the slot 18 of the outer lever13', has the efiect of doing away with the abruptness of the change ofmovement in the rocking operation, since one lever thus. retains theother at the end of its stroke, and in that way the strokes areequalized in length, with a consequent freedom from uneven or jerkingaction. This grasped'in I thejhands of the operator for alternateoscillation, which causes the short cables 4 and permits a smooth andeven reversal of action, and equalizes the manual draft. In

case of any slackness in the cables, the same i may be tightened upby'adjusting the setscrews 11' and 12, respectively.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, a rock-shaft mounted therein, bearings,hand-levers fulcrumed in said bearings, a slidable connection betweensaid levers, limiting their movements to equal oppositelydirectedsimultaneous oscillations, and operative connections between said leversand said shaft adapted to rock the latter alternately in oppositedirections when the hand-levers are oscillated.

2. In a washing-machine, a rock-shaft mounted. therein, bearings,hand-levers, one lever having its lower extremity fulcrumed in onebearing and having a slot above said bearing, the other lever having apin on its Signed at Waterloo, IOWa, 11th day lower extremity slidablyseated in said slot of Oct. 1913. and being fulerumed above said pin inanother bearing, and operative Connections be EUGENE BUSWELL' tween saidlevers and said shaft adapted to VVitnesseszY- cause the latter to berocked alternately re- GEO. OLKE NEDY,

v versely When the hand-levers are oscillated. I W. H; BRl NN f' Gopieiof thispaten't inlay be obtained for five cents each, by'addressing the"Commissioner of-Pathts.

Washington, D. G.

